Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

2007-12-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tejun Heo wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Dec 1 2007 06:26, Justin Piszcz wrote: I ran the following: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde (as it is always a very good idea to do this with any new disk)

Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

2007-12-10 Thread Tejun Heo
Justin Piszcz wrote: > The badblocks did not do anything; however, when I built a software raid > 5 and the performed a dd: > > /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero of=fill_disk bs=1M > > [42332.936615] ata5.00: exception Emask 0x2 SAct 0x7000 SErr 0x0 action > 0x2 frozen > [42332.936706] ata5.00: spuri

Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

2007-12-10 Thread Tejun Heo
Bill Davidsen wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Dec 1 2007 06:26, Justin Piszcz wrote: >>> I ran the following: >>> >>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc >>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd >>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde >>> >>> (as it is always a very good idea to do this with any new disk) >> >> Why wo

Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

2007-12-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 17:38:08 -0500 (EST) Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 06:26:08 -0500 (EST) > > Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I am putting a new machine together and I have dual raptor raid 1 f

Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

2007-12-06 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 06:26:08 -0500 (EST) Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am putting a new machine together and I have dual raptor raid 1 for the root, which works just fine under all stress tests. Then I have the WD 750 GiB drive (not RE2,

Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

2007-12-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 06:26:08 -0500 (EST) Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am putting a new machine together and I have dual raptor raid 1 for the > root, which works just fine under all stress tests. > > Then I have the WD 750 GiB drive (not RE2, desktop ones for ~150-160 on > sale n

Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

2007-12-04 Thread Robert Hancock
Justin Piszcz wrote: The badblocks did not do anything; however, when I built a software raid 5 and the performed a dd: /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero of=fill_disk bs=1M I saw this somewhere along the way: [30189.967531] RAID5 conf printout: [30189.967576] --- rd:3 wd:3 [30189.967617] disk 0

Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

2007-12-02 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Janek Kozicki wrote: Justin Piszcz said: (by the date of Sat, 1 Dec 2007 07:23:41 -0500 (EST)) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc The purpose is with any new disk its good to write to all the blocks and let the drive to all of

Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

2007-12-01 Thread Robert Hancock
Justin Piszcz wrote: I am putting a new machine together and I have dual raptor raid 1 for the root, which works just fine under all stress tests. Then I have the WD 750 GiB drive (not RE2, desktop ones for ~150-160 on sale now adays): I ran the following: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc dd if=

Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

2007-12-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Dec 1 2007 06:26, Justin Piszcz wrote: I ran the following: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde (as it is always a very good idea to do this with any new disk) Why would you care about what's on the disk? fdisk, mkfs an

Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

2007-12-01 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Dec 1 2007 06:26, Justin Piszcz wrote: I ran the following: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde (as it is always a very good idea to do this with any new disk) Why would you care about what's on

Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

2007-12-01 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 1 2007 06:26, Justin Piszcz wrote: > I ran the following: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde > > (as it is always a very good idea to do this with any new disk) Why would you care about what's on the disk? fdisk, mkfs and the day-to-

Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

2007-12-01 Thread Justin Piszcz
I am putting a new machine together and I have dual raptor raid 1 for the root, which works just fine under all stress tests. Then I have the WD 750 GiB drive (not RE2, desktop ones for ~150-160 on sale now adays): I ran the following: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd